----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sat May 02 16:30:13 GMT 2026 Year:26 Doy:122 Observer: mcotter Weather COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 16:30:18 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Timestamp (UTC): 2026-05-02 16:26:00 Temperature : 36.01 deg F Dew Point : 4.15 deg F Pressure : 678.2 mbar Wind Speed : 6.93 mph Wind Direction : 163.0 deg Skies: Hazy and bright skies with an inversion layer visible just below Haleakala. COLD, COLD, COLD! ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 16:34:25 GMT 2026 power outage: The ECO FLO power unit turned of during the course of the night, therefore the ILX did not come on this morning when prompted by the Pi computer. The ECO FLO was restarted. Power levels when we came in this morning; ECO FLO: 87%. YETI: 46%. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 16:40:28 GMT 2026 Kcor heater. The ILX was started when we came in this morning, as it did not come on when prompted earlier this morning due to the ECO FLO power going out during the night. As per Ben's instructions, in the dome Lisa put a space heater on a table facing toward the rear of the Kcor Base Plate as a means to jump start the heating process of the Kcor Heaters, so as to speed up the heating process. ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 16:57:14 GMT 2026 Kcor heater. The Kcor Instrument Base Plate is now warm to the touch and the ILX is reading 18.8 Deg C. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 16:58:49 GMT 2026 Power Supply Levels. ECO FLO: 53%. YETI: 45%. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 17:12:44 GMT 2026 Dome open ___end___ ** KCOR PM mcotter ** : Sat May 02 17:12:51 GMT 2026 Blew off Kcor O1 ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY mcotter: Sat May 02 17:22:56 GMT 2026 Opened windows upstairs ___end___ Sat May 02 17:26:28 GMT 2026 Kcor Focus/alignment program exited ** GENERAL PROBLEM REPORTED BY berkey ** : Sat May 02 17:26:52 GMT 2026 Power outage Ecoflow had been configured to shutdown after 12 hours of idle. This apperas to be the root casue of the power outage. Timeouts have be adjusted to enver time out on the device, and ac output . This should prevent the system from sleeping again. ___end___ Sat May 02 17:28:33 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Solar Event COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 18:42:25 GMT 2026 entry was edited Observed Prominence In the N-NE, it looks like there is movement along a field line. Will hold off on Kcor calibrations. ___end___ ** GENERAL PROBLEM REPORTED BY lisapg ** : Sat May 02 18:57:20 GMT 2026 CME reports made by observer(s) are not getting written to the log automatically. Will try to look into shortly. ___end___ CME Alert COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 18:58:42 GMT 2026 Observed CME CME in the W-NW between PA 270-310 can be seen in the NRGFs; holding off KCor calibrations. ___end___ Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 19:47:56 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Timestamp (UTC): 2026-05-02 19:44:00 Temperature : 47.34 deg F Dew Point : 31.39 deg F Pressure : 679.3 mbar Wind Speed : 6.26 mph Wind Direction : 330.4 deg Skies: Some clouds popping up in the West and East over Mauna Loas' shoulder and some rising to the Northwest. Keeping an eye on them. ___end___ Sat May 02 20:36:25 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Sat May 02 20:36:40 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Sat May 02 20:38:42 GMT 2026 KCOR Start Synoptic Patrol Sat May 02 20:47:05 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Sat May 02 20:47:18 GMT 2026 KCOR End Patrol Weather COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 20:51:51 GMT 2026 MLO Current Weather Timestamp (UTC): 2026-05-02 20:47:00 Temperature : 49.69 deg F Dew Point : 37.72 deg F Pressure : 679.31 mbar Wind Speed : 8.72 mph Wind Direction : 342.4 deg Skies: Clouds have come up and currently covering the Sun; Kcor idled for now. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 22:27:51 GMT 2026 Dome closed Due to low clouds in the NW ___end___ KCOR COMMENT BY KCOR: Sat May 02 22:28:04 GMT 2026 KCOR file transfer report KCor created 805 .bin files 804 .fts files NOTICE ? 1 .bin file(s) with no matching .fts: 20260502_205045_kcor.bin Remote site is complete ? no rsync required. ___end___ GENERAL COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 22:58:41 GMT 2026 Nice weather at start up with aerosols not getting too heavy before the clouds rolled in. Hopefully tomorrow we get data for longer. ___end___ Logger COMMENT BY lisapg: Sat May 02 22:59:07 GMT 2026 Log closed ONSITE STAFF: lisapg, mcotter ___end___